Setting dynamic text in tweened animation

I'd like to be able to dynamically control text in an
imported clip, where the artist has used shape tweening to animate
the text.
From my reading of the documentation, to do shape tweening of
text you have to convert it to objects which can no longer be
accessed as a text field. So clearly I can't do this directly. Is
there any trick or work-around that might help?
Like, could the text be left as a text field, then somehow,
the main application does the work of converting it to an object at
runtime so that it will work with the tweening? (That seems like a
pretty dubious prospect honestly, but it's all I can think
of...)

I appreciate your taking the time to help me and others on
this board. (I actually have another -- probably related question
-- that has never been answered, but that one is more confusing
because it involved multiple language support and worked *until* I
embedded the font.)
My understanding of Flash is definitely a mixed bag. I have
encountered so many problems (really quirks) with Flash that I kind
of start with the assumption that I'm dealing with something
quirky.
In this case, since I don't know your style, I just couldn't
see where you were going with your questions. In any case, thanks.
I'm smarter re Flash as a result of your help.

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I'm working on a complex file given to me by another designer
and I'm having a problem with being able to set dynamic text.
Basically, I just want to set the text of a nested instance (e.g.,
with an instance called foo and a instance inside foo called bar,
I'm using foo.bar.text = "test".) This works beautifully and as
expected in a test file. But when I move the symbols and code to
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I feel confident that I'm not making any errors (I'm using
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causing the error. Mine is the only ActionScript in the entire
file.
Are there bugs with dynamic text? Could this have to do with
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fonts" without effect.
Thanks!

I appreciate your taking the time to help me and others on
this board. (I actually have another -- probably related question
-- that has never been answered, but that one is more confusing
because it involved multiple language support and worked *until* I
embedded the font.)
My understanding of Flash is definitely a mixed bag. I have
encountered so many problems (really quirks) with Flash that I kind
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In this case, since I don't know your style, I just couldn't
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Hi, is posible setting dynamic text in data series when use dynamic value ?
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This is not possible unless you have enhancement pack 1 for visual composer which I think is still in rampup...
Here is the enhancement noted in the article below.
Taken from blog:
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/people/judy.kestecher/blog/2008/08/26/whats-new-in-visual-composer--enhancement-package-1-for-sap-netweaver-70

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Dynamic text and animated masking problem?

Hi
Can anyone suggest to me what might be happening here. I will
try and explain step by step... I am using flash MX
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method one
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browser window which uses flash player 8 that now allows dynamic
devise fonts to be masked!
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I then wanted to create a different transition effect like
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method two uses several rectangler box shapes.
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Hi
I have been researching this ALOT and found some info that
basically tells me when I use setMask() over dynamic device fonts,
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whole mask movieclip) as the mask.
In case 1 the mask moviclips bounding box shrinks when the
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tweened. It appears to mask the text correctly.
In case 2 I have variouse different shape tweens going on
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correctly.
I think I have answered my own question, but this still
leaves me stuck! I want to create this venitian blind effect using
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Hello all,
Has anyone experienced any issues when using a dynamic text
field in flash, then importing the swf file into captivate? I am
using actionscript to populate a few dynamic text fields in flash.
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Once I do this, none of my text appears! When I launch the swf in
explorer and the flash authoring environment, it works fine. I have
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http://kplearning.com/project_testing/flashTesting/table1_wCanvas.zip
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Hi Deb
This falls into that "odd" or "grey area" category and is
likely the reason you haven't seen anyone reply. I say "odd" or
"grey area", because you are now beyond the realm of pure Captivate
behavior and have entered the realm of where you are now blending
Captivate with other Flash output in an effort to try and achieve
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Personally, I would encourage it, as you never know what you will
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yet, but I'm beginning to work on those skills. From what I DO
understand about blending Captivate with Flash, I believe Captivate
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call an external text file. For all I know at this stage, it could
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Hi,
I'm diving into Keynote for the first time and am struggling with trying to figure out how to create dynamic text within my masters.
I'd like to be able to have the user enter the title of the presentation on their title slide (using the title master) and then have that title propagate through the other slides in the footer of the section/content slides as meta data.
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If there is a feature you would like to see in Keynote, you can always use the "Provide Keynote Feedback" link in the "Keynote" menu to send you ideas to Apple. There's no guarantee that your feature will appear, but that's the way to let Apple know that you would like to see something changed.
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Hi I have a dynamic textbox that has a scroller. I'm trying
to tween it with some blur effect or put a mask on top of it but
when I do it the text will not show at all. After changing the text
type to static and the effect all worked fine.
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Dynamic text can have anything done to it, just like static
text. You just
have to be sure to embed. Select a dynamic field, in the
Properties Panel,
click the Embed... button. Choose character sets to embed. I
will normally
use Uppercase, Lowercase, Numerals, and Punctuation.
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Displaying the result of a calculation in a dynamic text box

Hi folks,
I'm having a very minor issue here (operator error, I'm sure ). With the help of some folks here, I've created a series of calculations, and I've got that part down. Now, I just need it to show up in the movie.
I've created the dynamic text box in Flash (CS3), but when I hit test, it won't show up.
After all the calculations, I should have a figure that I call totalmoney. My dynamic text box is called total. The user doesn't need to hit anything for it to appear. It just appears as part of the movie.
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You didn't have to bury any of the calculations in the function--leaving it as you had it is better. They could remain where they a=werew, and you'll probably find you want them outside it if you have other plans for using them. If left inside, they only have scope inside. In the programming world, it's good to think of functions as things that do one thing and one thing only (though it isn't often practiced that way)--it's called modular design.
When you place an event as an argument for a function, it typically means that there is an event listener that initiates the call to the function. If you work with buttons you'll see what I mean. But if the plan is to create your own call to a function when you desire it as such, not have it driven by an event listener, then you don't need to pass any event to it, though you may pass some other type of variable to it if need be.
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function displaytotal(amt:Number):void {
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// my earlier error was that a textfield displays text, so you need to convert the Number value to s String.
Hope I'm not confusing you.

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